Antelope Audio Discrete 4 Pro Synergy Core
The Antelope Audio Discrete 4 Pro Synergy Core is a new modification of the high-quality Discrete 4 audio interface with two DSP processors featuring FPGA architecture. Maintaining its key and flagship qualities in the segment of external sound interfaces for small recording studios, this model raises the bar even higher and reaches a new level of sound processing that is accessible to a wide range of users.
Features:
- Premier Synergy Core FX effects processing
- Support for 24-bit / 192 kHz
- 64-Bit AFC Wordclock synchronization connectors
- 37 real-time audio effects + additional expansions
- 4 Class A discrete transistor-based console-grade microphone preamps
- Intuitively designed software control panel
Conversion, synchronization, and professional-level preamps - all in your home or studio with the Antelope Discrete 4 Pro Synergy Core, a 14x20 Thunderbolt 3 and USB 2.0 audio interface that provides top-notch sound quality and extensive connectivity options in a desktop format, perfect for sound engineers, self-recording artists, and music producers. In addition to impressive hardware quality, the Discrete 4 Pro Synergy Core offers 37 real-time analog effects that run on built-in DSP and FPGA chips, ensuring ultra-low latency and zero load on your computer's CPU.
Synergy Core Technology
The key innovation in the new Discrete 4 Pro model lies in its name - Synergy Core. This technology combines a standard DSP with proprietary FPGA-based chips for effect processing in your digital audio workstation, maximizing your computer's performance by offloading all effects processing to the Synergy Core system. This increases the stability and efficiency of your digital audio workstation, reduces latency, and allows your computer's CPU to focus on other tasks in your projects.
With the Synergy Core technology, you gain access to a library of 37 studio-grade effects meticulously modeled after hardware originals, allowing you to add and monitor them with minimal latency in real-time. Combined with the Accusonic 3D modeling technology that works with 18 high-precision emulations of various professional studio microphones, you can fully unleash the potential of Antelope's Edge and Verge microphone models.
Preamps, Converters, and Connectors
The Discrete 4 Pro features four discrete six-transistor Class A microphone preamps. Paired with high-quality A/D and D/A converters with a dynamic range of 130 dB and a sampling frequency of up to 192 kHz, these preamps work seamlessly to ensure premium audio quality. The device includes 2 XLR/TRS combo inputs for microphones on the front panel and two additional inputs on the back. With 4 headphone outputs, 4 line outputs, 2 stereo monitor outputs, 2 Word Clock synchronization outputs, ADAT and S/PDIF I/O ports, and USB and Thunderbolt connectors, the Discrete 4 Pro Synergy Core serves as a hub for multiple headphones, mixes, and monitoring outputs with its four independently adjustable headphone outputs, balanced monitor outputs, and four DC-coupled line outputs.
Synchronization
Antelope Audio built its successful company on creating proprietary Master Clocks for high-precision audio stream synchronization. The Discrete 4 Pro incorporates a 64-bit proprietary 4th-generation AFC Master Clock, typically found in the company's higher-end models, ensuring high precision and synchronization between multiple digital devices with its two Word Clock outputs.
Plugins
The AFX2DAW plugin library offers high-quality emulations of studio preamps, equalizers, compressors, effects, guitar amplifiers, cabinets, and microphone models, expanding the creative possibilities of your analog devices. The library also includes models of different microphones, allowing you to enhance your setup significantly. The studio modeling microphones Edge and Verge from Antelope Audio are ideal companions for this software.
Interface
The Antelope Audio Discrete 4 Pro features a rich and convenient EasyPanel software interface for desktop use, compatible with both Windows and OS X. Additionally, remote control of the audio interface is possible through a dedicated application available for Android and iOS, making monitoring parameter control even more convenient and simple from your mobile devices.
In the Box:
- Sound card
- Power supply
- Documentation